There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains ones body?